The Turkish government and its supporters have gone to great lengths to deceive the public on the matter of the CUP genocides, especially that of the Armenians. They have forged evidence and attempted to discredit legitimate evidence as worthless, even going so far as to
redefine genocide in the process. They have used numerous red herrings and distractions and inflated and conjured up imaginary
bogeymen such as the "Armenian gangs", Turkish stories of whose alleged mass atrocities against Muslims amount to an Anatolian version of the
blood libel, applied to their own personal
hated, marginalized, and persecuted minority on whom blame must be shifted. In recent years, they have even turned to presenting the genocide as "
Islamophobic", recruiting
Islamic extremists to do a significant portion of their arguing for them.
[77] They have made up an
alternative history in which they have committed no genocide or colonialism, despite the fact that Turkish settlement in Anatolia is solely the product of a millennium-long colonialist policy by the Turks themselves.
[78]There is no limit to the
deceitfulness of Turkish revisionists.